Suspected Boko Haram Terrorists have killed 44 persons between Monday and Tuesday in Dille and Huyim villages of Askira – Uba Local GovernmentArea of Borno State, Pointblanknews.com gathered. A member of the local Vigilante Group confirmed the incident on phone today. According to the member , ” the suspected Boko Haram terrorists invaded our community…
KANO (AFP) – Relatives of some of the schoolgirls seized in a mass kidnapping by Boko Haram demanded Wednesday that Nigeria’s president meet everyone affected, describing a hastily-arranged plan for a visit with aselect few as offensive. More than three months after the Islamist rebels seized 276 girls from a secondary school in the northeastern…
By From ALOYSIUS ATTAH, Onitsha For the residents and landlords of Oduke Layout, Obosi, Anambra State, life has lost its good taste and meaning. Everyday spent within the layout is like living in perpetual agony owing to flood and erosion menace ravaging the area. While water is regarded as a source of life, the sign…
Being Text of a Press Conference Addressed By Joe Igbokwe in Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday, 16th July 2014. Gentlemen of the Press. I speak to you as an Activist, I speak to you as one of those who participated and witnessed the struggle for democracy in this country from 1985 to 1999. I speak…
Nigeria is in trouble–Falana By Henry Umoru, Levinus Nwabughiogu & Joseph Erunke ABUJA – Former governor of Bayelsa State and delegate to the ongoing national conference, Chief Diepreiye Alamieyeisegha on Monday said that the Niger delta communities were planning to shut down oil production in the region to forestall a looming earthquake and other natural disasters.…
Ndigbo Unity Forum, A pan Igbo organization, said in a press statement, that President Goodluck Jonathan, should hold himself responsible for the high level of insurgency in the countryThe President of Ndigbo Unity Forum, Mr. Augustine Chukwudum, said this in a reaction to the Presidents assertion that some people were trying to bring down his…
By Salisu Maradun & Marie-Therese NanlongGUsau—Over 50 people were reported to have been killed in Gidandawa District of Maradun Local Government Area in Zamfara State, while many others were injured following a reprisal attack yesterday on the residents by suspected Fulani herdsmen.This came as no fewer than 10 persons were reportedly killed in the latest…
By Salisu Maradun & Marie-Therese NanlongGUsau—Over 50 people were reported to have been killed in Gidandawa District of Maradun Local Government Area in Zamfara State, while many others were injured following a reprisal attack yesterday on the residents by suspected Fulani herdsmen.This came as no fewer than 10 persons were reportedly killed in the latest…
BY HENRY UMORU, LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU & JOSEPH ERUNKE FORTY- Four years after, the Civil War , Igbo delegates asked for N2. 6 trillion as reparation and compensation for the devastation Igbo land experienced during the 1967 to 1970 war.In an amendment to the proposed National Intervention Fund, the South East delegates said the former Eastern…
BY NWABUEZE OKONKWOONITSHA—Elder statesman and First Republic Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, has blamed the federal government for the continued existence of the dreaded Boko Haram sects in the country.“I’m disappointed in the Nigerian government for its incompetence and poor handling of the Boko Haram issue because it appeared to me that the federal…